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You mean like the
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the bottom of the quicklists? Revolutionary.

2012/5/26 Pedro Bessa <pedbessa@xxxxxxxxx>

>  Em 22-05-2012 10:08, Matt Richardson escreveu:
>
> Actually, scrap that. I have just realised that action might well be used
> by a number of users wanting to reach the menu options.
>
> On 22/05/12 13:00, Matt Richardson wrote:
>
> On the note of which control to put in the top left, what if we extended
> the launcher to the top (as has been previously mentioned) but then have it
> so that you can either close by clicking the close button, or by moving the
> mouse to the top left corner, and then right, along the top, to close.
>
> e.g. Top one is pointer movement, bottom one is mouse movement.
>
>
> Matt
>
> On 19/05/12 20:18, shane lee wrote:
>
> But the point I have against the close-in-the-corner argument, as I
> have said before, is that not every window is used maximized and some
> windows cannot be maximized at all (System Settings, Calculator) so
> there is never a common close spot.
>
> Because the window buttons for maximized windows are hidden, then
> there could be a case to have a set spot to aim for but the answer to
> that is to keep the window buttons visible all the time.
>
> I believe that is the direction the last discussion was heading and a
> developer (Trevino) demonstrated a patch to keep the window buttons
> showing always but nobody responded to it after that.
>
> On 19 May 2012 19:16, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 13:06 -0500, Aditya Vaidya wrote:
>
>  If one uses autohide, this problem doesn't really exist because all of
> the space below that corner is also being used. However, if one uses
> the always-visible launcher, then the problem does exist. I suggest
> that, if the user is using an always-visible launcher, the launcher
> goes all the way to the top of the screen, cutting down those ~48px of
> space from the panel but also removing that ugly corner. Yes, the
> panel will be a little shorter, but it is, in my opinion, a good
> sacrifice to remove that visual "glitch". Not sure if this has been
> suggested before, but I'll suggest it again if it has.
>
>  One big argument here is what we use the important top-left corner of
> the screen for. It's one of the easiest places on the screen to move the
> mouse quickly; and at the moment, the "close current window" button is
> there. If we lengthened the panel up to the top of the screen, the Dash
> button would be there instead, which at least I use less commonly than
> opening the window.
>
> (We don't make perfect use of the other screen corners either, by the
> way; bottom-left is for the trash, which is not the sort of thing that's
> accessed often enough to need a corner, and bottom-right isn't used for
> anything. I guess having an unbound corner is useful as Compiz allows
> you to bind things to screen corners, which would require a corner
> that's not already being used for other things.)
>
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>
>
>  I have a radically different approach to this problem.
>
> Firefox had one close button for all tabs and it was
> always in the same place. Unity has close buttons
> and they're almost always on top left.
>
> The Firefox community pressured the Firefox officials
> to make a tab have its close icon inside the tab. Firefox
> now has one close button per tab.
>
> *Place a close button by the right of a launcher icon
> of an app that is running.*
>
> You people should really look at my ideas instead of
> looking at the way that I showed my ideas.
>
> Best regards,
> Pedro Bessa
>
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